Anmeldelser fra kritikere

Farrokhzad wrote, directed, and edited this poetic, 21-minute document of a leper colony in Northern Iran, and it’s the only film she ever made. Her cuts are often jarring, the unexpected relationship between sound and image create a feeling of almost 360-degree immersion in the space. The rhythm of the edits and her juxtaposition of poetic visuals with an unwavering gaze on the inhabitants of the leper colony create a gentle directness that forces the viewer to absolutely focus on her subjects

For me it is the greatest of all Iranian films, at least among the 60 or 70 that I’ve seen to date. More than any other Iranian film that comes to mind, it highlights the paradoxical and crucial fact that while Iranians continue to be among the most demonized people on the planet, Iranian cinema is becoming almost universally recognized as the most ethical, as well as the most humanist.

Muther fuckin' masterpiece. One of the best films ever, short or not. Must-see to any film buff. I'm sad it only lasted 20 minutes. Many people walked out of the theatre, yet the film's graphic nature was quite beautiful. I love the look on that boy (is it a girl? His eyes are somewhat feminine) when asked by the teacher to use the words he'd come up by himself on a sentence. Love the gating closing on us/audience.

A dextrous mix of a great many things: raw realism, poetic abstraction, social advocacy for today, philosophy for eternity. But I remain conflicted; no matter how undeniably noble it is, I can't shake a general unease about the camera transmuting real people and their pain into a filmmaker's spiritual pondering. But it is indeed Important with a capital I—the worst I can say is that it comes short of the pantheon.

"Remember that my life is wind". This film is filled with sadness and poetry - in a way it's hard to combine images and voice over to build such an iconic and ironic portrait: religion and reality bumping against each other.

"On this screen will appear an image of ugliness, a vision of pain no caring human being should ignore"
Just a little empathy will do enough, i guess. That may be a middle-length film but sure a very long one in my mind.